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Facebook hires high-ranking US State Department lawyer
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
Jennifer Newstead will replace Colin Stretch, who announced in July that he planned to leave Facebook. Newstead will oversee global legal functions at the Calif...
Amazon, Google agree to allow each other's streaming apps
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
The companies said in a statement that the official YouTube apps will be available on Amazon's Fire TV in the coming months, allowing users of the Amazon platfo...
Tech startups Pinterest, Zoom soar in Wall Street debut
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
Pinterest shares leapt 28 percent to close at $24.40 after its initial public offering (IPO), which raised some $1.4 billion. The jump was a positive sign for o...
Pinterest prices IPO at $19 to begin trading Thursday
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
The online bulletin board popular among women is offering 75 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange with 11.25 million extra if required, raising between...
Apple and Qualcomm bury the hatchet in royalties battle royal
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
The last-minute settlement cut short a courtroom clash between the tech giants just as it was getting underway in California. For two-years the companies had fo...
China probes Sweden's Ericsson over licensing
Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)
China's State Administration of Market Regulation is investigating the firm due to complaints against its intellectual property rights licensing in China, a spo...
Disney throws down gauntlet in war on Netflix
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
The media-entertainment colossus announced its Disney+ streaming service would launch in November in the United States and gradually expand internationally. The...
Talks on tech taxes 'productive': Mnuchin
Apr 13, 2019 (AFP)
Countries like France, Spain and Austria have announced plans to tax tech companies' revenues outright because the Internet-based companies do not declare profi...
US unveils plans to speed up 5G wireless deployment
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
At a White House event, the Federal Communications Commission announced new spectrum auctions for 5G systems and said a $20.4 billion fund would be established ...
Indian IT giants Infosys, TCS see profits soar
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT outsourcing firm, said profits for the quarter ending March 2019 rose 17.7 percent from the same period a ye...
Bezos upbeat on Amazon Go physical stores
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
In his annual letter to shareholders, Bezos was upbeat about the prospects for Amazon Go, the stores where customers use an app to check out, with purchases sca...
US House passes 'net neutrality' bill unlikely to become law
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
The largely symbolic 232-190 vote on the "Save the Internet" bill aims to restore regulations approved in 2015 and then rolled back in 2017 in the latest back-a...
Breaking the internet: new regulations imperil global network
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
Increasingly, moves by governments to filter and restrict content are threatening to fragment the system created with the promise of connecting the world with a...
French MPs approve digital tax, defying US ire
Apr 08, 2019 (AFP)
The United States has urged its NATO ally to drop the plan, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning last week that it would hurt both the American firms ...
France insists on digital tax despite US anger
Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)
Last month, France unveiled draft legislation to set a three percent tax on digital advertising, the sale of personal data and other revenue for any technology ...
Social media gets thumbs-down in new US poll
Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 57 percent of Americans believe social media sites do more to divide the country, and 55 percent said the networks a...
South Korea launches 5G networks early to secure world first
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
Three top telecom providers -- SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus -- began their 5G services at 11 pm local time Wednesday, despite previously announcing the launch da...
Social media bosses face jail under 'world first' Australian laws
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the laws, which hold firms like Facebook and YouTube -- and their executives -- responsible for removing "abhorrent ...
Snapchat launches own multi-player gaming platform
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
"Friendship is more than just the things you chat about," said Will Wu, the director of product at Snapchat as he unveiled Snap Games at a Partner Summit in Los...
Tencent raises $6 bn in huge dollar bond sale
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
The social media and gaming behemoth confirmed the pricing in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday with the biggest 10-year tranche of $3 billio...
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